Renewed Democratic Liberty

Renewed Democratic Liberty (LIDER) is a conservative political party in Guatemala that was active from 25 November 2010 to 16 February 2016. The party consisted of defectors from the social democratic National Unity of Hope party, and it drew views from both the left and right; it had no established political views, and it identified itself as a centrist party. LIDER supported humanitarianism, egalitarianism, pacifism, and democracy, but it also supported the death penalty. The party was controversial due to its links to drug traffickers, its excessive use of violence against protesters (LIDER bodyguards used pepper spray against peaceful demonstrators who posed no threat to them), its use of inflammatory language, and its surpassing of its budget ceiling for campaigns.